Be sure you drain both the sumps. (You can fill your Zippo lighter while you do this)
Look out the left side of the oily cockpit canopy and notice a very nervous person holding a huge fire bottle. Nod to this person.

a. This act requires finesse and style. It is much like a ballet performance. The engine must be seduced and caressed into starting.

7. Act one will begin: Belching, banging, rattling, backfiring, spluttering, flame and black smoke from the exhaust shooting out about three feet. (Fire bottle person is very pale and has the nozzle at the ready position)

8. When the engine begins to catch on the primer. Move the mixture to full rich. The flames from the exhaust will stop and white smoke will come out. (Fire bottle guy relaxes a bit) You will hear a wonderful throaty roar that is like music to the ears.

3. Engine failure to the jet pilot means something is wrong with his
air conditioner.

4. When you take off in a jet there is no noise in the cockpit. (This does not create a macho feeling of doing something manly)

5. Landing a jet just requires a certain airspeed and altitude---at which you cut the power and drop like a rock to the runway. Landing a round engine tail dragger requires finesse, prayer, body English, pumping of rudder pedals and a lot of nerve.

6. After landing, a jet just goes straight down the runway.

7. A radial tail dragger is like a wild mustang---it might decide to go anywhere. Gusting winds help this behavior a lot.

8. You cannot fill your Zippo lighter with jet fuel.

9. Starting a jet is like turning on a light switch---a little click
and it is on.

"Don't want to be a buzzkill but before you cranked the starter in the A1, how did you clear the bottom cylinders?"

My answer: get a couple buddies and pull the prop through about 20 blades. If there's a hydraulic lock (oil in the cylinder) take out the plug, Don't forget to back off the prop to relieve the pressure in the offending cylinder or you'll need a bath.

The normal way- slave labor. I've seen a guy use the starter to turn the prop through with fuel and switches off on a F4U-5 before but the airplane hadn't been sitting all day either. Love those big round engines.

Man, oh man! i justt tell ya: in 1969, i, a brasilian guy, wrote to the US Dept of War to voluntary fly o Viet Nam. This wonderful machine Skyraider was my dream. My life as a commercial pilot was a suck. I was eager for action on my 19 year.

They reply my letter saying that they only could consider my offer if I were in a american territory.